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Published inSep 2022
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Gineesh Madapparambath
Gineesh Madapparambath
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Gineesh Madapparambath

Gineesh Madapparambath has over 15 years of experience in IT service management and consultancy with experience in planning, deploying, and supporting Linux-based projects. He has designed, developed, and deployed automation solutions based on Ansible and Ansible Automation Platform (formerly Ansible Tower) for bare metal and virtual server building, patching, container management, network operations, and custom monitoring. Gineesh has coordinated, designed, and deployed servers in data centers globally and has cross-cultural experience in classic, private cloud (OpenStack and VM ware), and public cloud environments (AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform). Gineesh has handled multiple roles such as systems engineer, automation specialist, infrastructure designer, and content author. His primary focus is on IT and application automation using Ansible, containerization using OpenShift (and Kubernetes), and infrastructure automation using Terraform.
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Configuring Ansible for Kubernetes

Ansible can communicate with Kubernetes clusters using the Kubernetes Python libraries or directly via the Kubernetes API, as shown in Figure 11.3:

Figure 11.3 – Communication between Ansible and Kubernetes

Ansible modules and plugins for managing Kubernetes are available in the kubernetes.core Ansible collection. (The Ansible Kubernetes collection was released as community.kubernetes prior to the release of kubernetes.core 1.1.) We will install, configure, and use the kubernetes.core collection in the following sections.

Python requirements

To communicate with the Kubernetes or OpenShift API, use the Python client for the OpenShift API (https://github.com/openshift/openshift-restclient-python) Python library. Before using any of the Kubernetes modules, you need to install the required Python libraries, as follows:

$ pip install openshift
$ pip install PyYAML

If you are using Ansible inside a Python virtual...

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Gineesh Madapparambath

Gineesh Madapparambath has over 15 years of experience in IT service management and consultancy with experience in planning, deploying, and supporting Linux-based projects. He has designed, developed, and deployed automation solutions based on Ansible and Ansible Automation Platform (formerly Ansible Tower) for bare metal and virtual server building, patching, container management, network operations, and custom monitoring. Gineesh has coordinated, designed, and deployed servers in data centers globally and has cross-cultural experience in classic, private cloud (OpenStack and VM ware), and public cloud environments (AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform). Gineesh has handled multiple roles such as systems engineer, automation specialist, infrastructure designer, and content author. His primary focus is on IT and application automation using Ansible, containerization using OpenShift (and Kubernetes), and infrastructure automation using Terraform.
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